Proverbs 4:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 5:1 : 1 My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:
  • Prov 7:1 : 1 My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.
  • Prov 6:20-21 : 20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother: 21 Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
  • Ps 78:1 : 1 <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.
  • Ps 90:12 : 12 So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    86%

    1My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

    2So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;

    2So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

  • Prov 4:10-11
    2 verses
    82%

    10Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

    11I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.

  • Prov 7:24-25
    2 verses
    81%

    24So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;

    25Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

    2For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.

  • Prov 4:21
    80%

    21Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

  • Prov 7:1
    80%

    1My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

  • Prov 23:26
    80%

    26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

  • Prov 22:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

    18For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

  • Prov 5:7
    79%

    7Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

  • Prov 23:19
    79%

    19Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.

  • Prov 23:12
    78%

    12Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    78%

    32Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

    33Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go.

  • Prov 1:8
    78%

    8My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

  • Prov 3:1
    77%

    1My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

  • Prov 4:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:

    5Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 3:21
    77%

    21My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.

  • Ps 78:1
    77%

    1<Maschil. Of Asaph.> Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 1:15
    76%

    15My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

  • Prov 19:27
    75%

    27A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 6:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

    21Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.

  • Prov 1:10
    74%

    10My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

  • Gen 27:8
    74%

    8Now, my son, do what I say.

  • Ezek 3:10
    74%

    10Then he said to me, Son of man, take into your heart all my words which I am about to say to you, and let your ears be open to them.

  • Job 34:16
    74%

    16If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words.

  • Isa 28:23
    74%

    23Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what I say.

  • Job 13:17
    74%

    17Give ear with care to my words, and keep what I say in your minds.

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

    6If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

  • Prov 4:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.

    26Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

  • Ps 49:4
    73%

    4I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.

  • Prov 4:19
    72%

    19The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

  • Job 22:22
    72%

    22Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.

  • Prov 1:5
    72%

    5(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

  • Ps 5:1
    72%

    1<To the chief music-maker on wind instruments. A Psalm. Of David.> Give ear to my words, O Lord; give thought to my heart-searchings.

  • Prov 23:15
    72%

    15My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

  • Prov 27:11
    72%

    11My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

  • Prov 1:23
    72%

    23Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.

  • Prov 23:22
    72%

    22Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

  • Prov 13:1
    71%

    1A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.